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Actors Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana pose for a portrait session on December 3, 2009, Los Angeles, CA.

Photos for: USA Today, January 5, 2010

Congrats to James Cameron and the cast & Crew of AVATAR for it’s impressive 9 Oscar Nominations!

Here’s a list of what they’re up for:

BEST PICTURE:
* Avatar
* The Blind Side
* District 9
* An Education
* The Hurt Locker
* Inglourious Basterds
* Precious
* A Serious Man
* Up
* Up in the Air

DIRECTING:
* James Cameron (Avatar)
* Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
* Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
* Lee Daniels (Precious)
* Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)

ART DIRECTION:
* Avatar (Art Direction: Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg. Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair)
* The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Art Direction: Dave Warren, Anastasia Masaro. Set Decoration: Caroline Smith)
* Nine (Art Direction: John Myhre. Set Direction: Gordon Sim)
* Sherlock Holmes (Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood. Set Direction: Katie Spencer)
* The Young Victoria (Art Direction: Patrice Vermette. Set Direction: Maggie Gray)

CINEMATOGRAPHY:
* Avatar (Mauro Fiore)
* Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Bruno Delbonnel)
* The Hurt Locker (Barry Ackroyd)
* Inglourious Basterds (Robert Richardson)
* The White Ribbon (Christian Berger)

FILM EDITING:
* Avatar (Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron)
* District 9 (Julian Clarke)
* The Hurt Locker (Bob Murawski, Chris Innis)
* Inglourious Basterds (Sally Menke)
* Precious (Joe Klotz)

ORIGINAL SCORE:
* Avatar (James Horner)
* Fantastic Mr. Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
* The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders)
* Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)
* Up (Michael Giacchino)

SOUND MIXING:
* Avatar (Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson)
* The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett)
* Inglourious Basterds (Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Mark Ulano)
* Star Trek (Anna Behlmer, Andy Lenson, Peter J. Devlin)
* Transformers: Revenger of the Fallen (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Geoffrey Patterson)

SOUND EDITING:
* Avatar (Christopher Boyes, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle)
* The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson)
* Inglourious Basterds (Wylie Stateman)
* Star Trek (Mark Stroeckinger, Alan Rankin)
* Up (Michael Silvers, Tom Myers)

VISUAL EFFECTS:
* Avatar (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones)
* District 9 (Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken)

* Star Trek (Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton)

20th Century Fox has posted the full original script for AVATAR online. Cameron is already promising a wealth of awesome deleted scenes to be added to the DVD including a more complete Jake/Neytiri sex scene, Tsu’tey’s final fate, we get to learn exactly what happened with the school that Grace had set up and why the Navi hate the “Sky People” so much, how exactly Quaritch managed to take over the operation at the end, we get to find out that Norm acted like a punk-ass to Jake, and we see exactly how Jake got talked into joining up on this crazy expedition.

The script treatment is pretty cool to read, much of the dialog is the same, but there are differences.

Click HERE to check out the script – it’s a good read.

Avatar picked up a Critics Choice Award for Best Action Movie last night! It also won Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects, and Best Sound!

Click on picture below to check out our photos of Zoe Saldana & Jim Cameron from the event!